Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1919, Page 1

UNDER CONTROL OF THE SOVIET, STRIKES BREW Trouble " Spieads to| Other Regions as Order Is Restored | in Bavarian City | | 1 —— (By United Prens.) BERLIN, Feb. 25.—The sov- iet government has restored order in Munich and ordered the Bourgeois press suppressed | for ten days. ! Martial law was proclaimed | in Augsburg following a general | strike there. Spartacans seized the public buildings. Spartacans in the Mannheim coal districts are reported to be retreat- ing upon Dusseldorf and Muehlheim and fighting rear guard actions in| the forests with government troops. | The Spartacans seized the Denz rel tomobile. works at Wannheim and supplied themselves with cars. They | cut communications with Karlsruhe, Austria’s desire for a union with | Germany is cooling off since the soviets gained Bavaria. Saxe-Coburg has declared ‘against the empire. Government: troops will remain there until all is | calm,. Military Governor Noake an-/| nounced. war | MANNHEIM IS ONLY CENTER OF REVOLT LEFT. LONDON, Feb. 26.—The attempt | of Bavarian Spartacans to organize) a revolution in Baden and establish a Soviet government has failed, ex- cept at Mannheim, energetic action: of the Baden government, which im- mediately marched troops into Karlshue, arrested radical leaders and proclaimed a stage of siege having apparently killed the movement. ' The Mannheim outbreak, organized by the Bavarian communist leader Meuhsam, was more successful. The Spartacans are in possession of the THURSDAY - NIGHT | various officers. |that the charges against the men could Unlted Press Re Member Assoc} JP FOR HEARINE BEF ORE GOUNGIL Special Meeting Called This Week; Police Chief Stands up for Conduct of Men Since January |. The police question involving the | status of some five officers of the Cas-|; per force will be finally settled at a special meeting of the council Thurs- day night when cha preferred st the officers affected will be The policemen will appear be-| jfore the council to give reason why their services should not be dispensed with. The officers that were originally affected by the request of the new council men for dismissal were Cap- tain W. E. Kilgore, Sergeants Chas. Easton and William Kyte, Arthur E. Kyte, sanitary inspector and Patrol- man Divine. The various charges made against | | the officers include a full repertoire of | offenses generally charged against a police department. In some of the cases the councilmen are in possession of supporting affidavits from indivi- duals of their charges againgt the | Chief of Police John McGrath, stated that every man affected by \the charges, since he had taken of- fice, had proven to be a good con- scientious officer, and in his opinion not be substantiated. All of the charges made for conduct unbecom- ing an officer, one on alleged offenses that occurred before the present police regime was inaugurated. Mayor Leeper pledged the council that he would remove every man from the department against whom charges could be proven, but declined to work an injustice on the men by dismissing them from service without giving them a chance to answer the|’ complaints against them. pak ste ees WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—New city. Karlsrhue reports serious fight-! ing at. Mannheim with varying suc-| cess for possession of the newspaper :! Volks Timme. As everything is quiet in Baden, with the exception of Mannheim, the state of siege was raised. ‘ —— E. G. “Blackie” Henry, a pany in the Salt Creek field is confined at the county jail charged with the, murder of Sam Davis, who died at a local | ‘hospital last night from knife wounds inflicted by the defendant as the result of a fight which occurred at the Salt Creek field -yesterday morning., Jealously over a woman which resulted |wireless today. im a fight is“alleged as cause for the act. In the fight Henry is stated to have received the worst of the deal and in a vengeful mood went to his shack and procured a knife which he used’ on the dead man while he was in the act of washing off the stains of the first affray. Deputy Sheriff McNulty at Salt; Creek made the arrest immediately | following the fight, and it is stated, had to protect his prisoner from a mob which gathered bent on meting out quick justice. Sheriff Royce was notified to send a. Casper officer after the prisoner and to make arrangements to have the injured man brot to Casper. Davis was brot: in’ yesterday after- ymoon and sent. to a. local hospital where a hurried operation was per. formed in an effort to save the man’s announced, Secretary Redfield stated. _—$—$—$_—_ OHIO DRILLER HELD FOR DAVIS MURDER Sam Davis Stabbed by “Blackie” Henry.in | ALLIED MISSION Fight Early Monday and Dies at the | Hospital After Operation Here price levels on all commodities at} once by one reduction will be sought by the new industrial board imme- diately upon agreement between the janufacturers of basic materials and the board “fair” prices will be driller for the Ohio Oil com- CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919 he Casper Daily Crihune Nat ‘The May 1, 1890, d October ¥, 1916, nty Tribune F: ally ‘Tribune Ei NUMBER 109 FPULIGE CHARGES SPECIAL ELECTION GALLED FR MARGH 29 TO VOTE SGU, 000 BONDS FOR SEWER AND WATER EXTENSION WILL STRIKE AT“ Ordinances Approved Last Evening Call for Vote or| HAND GRENADE Improvements Important to Protection from Fire and Adequate Service. Casper voters will be called on to vote bonds totalling $369,000 at a special election to be held here March 29 ac-| cording to ordinances approved by the city council last night, culminating the actions for improvement that have been under discussion in the council for the past several weeks. Water distribution and extension of the present system to! playing with. AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO BE REDUCED TO 300,000 MEN BY CLOSE OF THE FISCAL YEAR give adequate fire protection and pro- | vide water supply for domestic pur- Poses in all parts of the present city and in districts to be incorporated into the city limits this spring will take up the major amount of the is- sue or $260,000. The next largest amount, $60,000, | will be used for the extension of the! sewer system to various parts of Casper. This amount is just a small; portion of the money that will be actually expended on sewer work during the coming two years and provides for the main trunk dines only in extensions to various dis- tricts. The main sewer expenditures will be made directly by the prop- erty owners in running feeder lines from property to the trunk lines. Bonds in the amount of $49,000, to reimburse the city fund that was used to provide funds for the orig- |Ninety-First Divisio Number of Wyoming Men, Scheduled to Embark Home During March [By Annoct ~_'NAVAL REVISION ROOT OF FUTURE Terits severat WARS, IS CLAIM BRUSSELS, | Feb, 25—Four chil- |dren are dood and 12 injured at |Opwiuk, Belgium, 10 miles northwest | of here, as a result of the explosion of a Ger hand grenade they were! Plans Discussed by» Radical Changes, in Sea Program By FRED S. FERGUSON | Cnited Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, Feb. 25.—Revplu- | tionary changes in naval laws ‘which would fit in with the League of Nations and make! war virtually impossible as | under discussion. The changes | | contemplate the forcing of a nation’s . ‘conduct in war only within the limit; n, Including Large jof its munitiong production. The practice of buying munitions from a neutral would pe eliminated. If a belligerent violated the judg- ment its movements at sea would bring upon it the league’s judgment | ewhile a violation by a non-belliger- P inted) Frese) jent would render the latter an ac- PARIS, Feb. 25.—Nearly five hundred thousand men of the|complice in war. Peace Envoys for ti REVENUE ACT IS SIGNED, WILSON ‘AT HOME’ AGAIN AT WHITE HOUSE ashington Gets Up Early to Extend Cordial Greeting to the President WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— President ilson arrive in Washington at 5 o'clock this morning: Because of the early hour he remained on the train till 8:40 before going to the hite House. A cheering early greeted the party as they passed thru .the station. President Wilson acknowledged the applause by lifting his hat. Many soldiers stood at at- jtention as he passed. | Announcement was made on his arrival in Washington that the pres- ident had signed the six-billion-dollar revenue bill on the special train last {night before retiring. The meas- jure carries bone dry rider for the |district of Columbia. | On reaching his desk the President |briskly set to work. He will preside at a cabinet meeting this afternoon, | while tomorrow night he has a dinner jengagement with the foreign affairs committees of both houses. ECONOMIC REPORTS | COMPILED BY CABINET | The cabinet meeting this afternoon was the president’s only appointment | for the day. It was the first cabi- | net meeting with the president in morning crowd made to interest the greatest num inal contract on the city is the re- mainder of the issue that must be! voted at the coming election. The election will fall on Saturday, March 29, and arrangements will be American expeditionary forces will, before July 1, either have returned | to the United States, or be homeward bound, according to an announce- | | ment today by Chief of Staff McAndrew. | The 27th, 85th, 37th and 91st division will sail in March, the 26th, | As the discussion progresses the) thirteen weeks. Each department idea is not to frame the rules under head has a report on domestic con- which war can be humanely conduct-/| ditions ready for President Wilson. ed but to render war impossible. | They include financial and labor situations which the president will be PARIS, Feb. 25.—Premier Clemen- | asked to disentangle as well as the ber of people that ever voted at a 78th, 33rd, 80th and 88th in May and the 89th, 90th, 20th and 79th’ |ceau’s progress is such that he is now | special election in Casper. im June. MAS. LULAJ. GEMRETT TAKES OWN LIFE AG CLIMAX TO DESPONDENGY OVER ILL HEALTH FOR PAST YEAR : Des that had sf extended over a year, Mrs. Lula J. Gehrett, aged 58, com- spoundency over constantly failing health as the result of illness | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Gen-)| eral McAndrew’s announcement con- | firms reports that the American ex- peditionary forces would be reduced | jto a total strength of 300,000 by the} jend of the fiscal year. |SENATE APPROVES ARMY |OF HALF MILLION MEN WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The! jsenate military affairs committee to-| y agreed to recommend an army Latest | and |classified as a convalescent. reports indicate improvement than he will soon return to work. POSEY RYAN IS ISSUED PARDON _ BY GOV. CAREY 509,000 men and 28,000 officers | asa permanent ilitary force. This provision the house had defeated al- though it left appropriations for such a sized army. On urgent appeals of mitted suicide late yesterday afternoon by taking an Srerdose of 'Secretary Baker and General March, | strychnine and ether at the family home, 920 South Chestnut. The the senate committee reinserted the|yijing his wife and daughter in a woman left no word to explain the rash act but it is known to relatives |” that she had been despondent for several weeks over her physical! condition. | Dr. W. C. Foster was called to at-| ithe poison but her condition was such \that no relief could be given. After she expired Coroner Lew M. Gay was notified and the body taken to the Shaffer-Gay chapel where it will be ‘held pending decision of whether an |inquest will be necessary. The deceased was the wife of J. Gehrett, who is employed in an of- |ficial capacity at the Midwest Refining | jcompany. The husband was at work} when the suicide occurred. Gehrett is also survived by one son. No funeral arrangements have been {made yet but it is probable the re- | home in Kansas Kansas) forgit interment. GOES TO PRAGUE | NOTICE T¢ TO so SOLDIERS. FOR MEDIATION | os eau rtd te serine isf your club rooms in the Oil Ex- PARIS, Feb. 2.—The Inter-Allied | We sant setery vated wolane: ant every returned soldier jmilitary mission to Poland has left|there. THE MOTHERS’ LEAGUE. Warsaw for Prague to act as media- | Ee tors in the conflict between the Poles | More than one million women in and Czecho-Slovaks, according to a} |the state of New York are now en- More than a hundred representative business men of Casper gathered around the banquet board at the Hen-! ning last evening to partake of the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner} and to participate in the election of a Board of Directors, to serve for the ensuing twelve months. A spirit of optimism and good fel- lowship pervaded the room and a de- termination to do greater things for life. The doctors removed a part of the knife’ blade from the back of the man and sewed up other severe wounds, Davis rallied shortly before the end came but was-unable to make any statement of the trouble that led up to the fight. ° Henry is in the county jail and has refused to make any statement. The Coroner’s inquest will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon when several eye witnesses to the tragedy: will ‘be summoned from Salt Creek and. examined. (atte = Restaurants ‘exclusively for wo- Casper during the next year was the keynote of all the speakers called up- on by Toastmaster Chamberlain, who declared that the discussion was free and invited any and all to “tell the new board of directors” what its du- ties should be during their tenure uf office. L, A. Reed, who was the first speaker of the evening, dwelt upon the necessity of a closer affiliation among the business men, and admon. ished them that, wherever possible, instead of boosting their own indi- vidual welfare, they should ‘become gaged in gainful occupations. GAPSER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESOLVES TO ‘SAW WOOD’ THIS YEAR HENNING BANQUET INSPIRES CONFIDENCE, NEW DIRECTORATE CHOSEN for the common good of se, Hardware Co., who always “talks After indulging in a round of good-| horse sense,” gave one of his custom- jtend the woman after she had taken | |mains will be shipped to the family | FIRE DESTROYS SHEDS AND TWO HOUSES, ‘CHIAN’ t] (Special to the Tribune.) ;. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 25.— |Fire which early this morning de- jstroyed the old Gilchrist lumber} isheds here, and burned two houses, |from which W. K. Moyer and son day threatened the entire northeast | :section of Cheyenne on account of | the high wind carrying burning em-| bers for a quarter of a mile. The) fire was finally subdued by the entire fire fighting equipment of the city and scores of volunteers. Thirty head of horses were stabled | in the sheds and all but two were) rescued. The residence of G. A. Mar-| tin was nearly totally destroyed with no insurance. Moyer and his son, who were sleep-| ing in the loft of the shed Sacaned| in their nightclothes, both badly] burned. The fire started from ashes |fanned to a flame by the high wind. | glass factory, and with the coming of | natural gas, which in a short while | (Special to the Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 25.—) Governor Carey issued his first par- | don today to Posey Ryan, sentenced for life in the state penitentiary for | | Cheyenne restaurant in 1909. Ryan’s |son, who is district judge in South | | Dakota, will come for his father. \ It is believed the governor’s action | will meet with general approval as | Ryan’s crime, while coldblooded, was {regarded as having much to justify the deed. | He had married a young woman |who, as brought out at the trial, had japparently sought to get his property with the connivance of her daughter. She was partially successful. Ryan followed the pair to Cheyenne, walk- ing in on them while they were at dinner in a local restaurant. He shot both to death and then surrendered Mrs. {narrowly escaped with their lives, to-; to the sheriff. —————— ; WARSAW, Feb. 24.—(By Associ- ated Press.) —A foreign office tele- gram from Lemberg says an agree- ment was reached for a cessation of hostilities between the Poles and | Ukrainians, beginning at 6:00 o’clock Monday evening. future of the army and navy plans, the railroads and reconstruction prob- jlems in general. Because of the pres- jident’s short stay the cabinet mem- bers may tour the country in support of the league. GREGORY’S SUCCESSOR NOT YET DETERMINED. It was said that the president had jnot made up his mind about the up- pointment of an attorney general to succeed Gregory or the calling of an ‘extra session of congress. President |Wilson is anxious to meet the gov- ernors of the states before he re- {turns to Europe to discuss the labor | situation. WILSON CONFIDF.NT OF POPULAR LEAGUE VERDICT. (By Ansoctated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 2 Presi- dent Wilson today reiterated his con- lfidence that the people will support the plan of the League of Nations in a telegram to Theodore Burton, president of the League of Nation’s union. A message in reply to the follow- ing, was telegraphed from New York from Mr. Burton: “The League of Nation’s union, merging the World Court League and the New York Peace Society, wel- come you as the recognized leader of the League of Nations movement and pledge its co-operation in rally- ing public opinion and in securing united action in support of the League.” The president replied: “Your message was greatly appre- ciated. I am myself confident that the people of the country will rally with practical unanimity to support of a plan in which the whole world 1 is looking to them to be leaders.” WIFE PRAYING FOR RECOVERY E. O. ORCHARD Former Casper Man Vindicates Action of Wife in Statement to Police; Shot Was Fired to Protect Son, She Says (Special to the Tribune.) natured sarcasm at the expense of the | managers of the telephone and light companies, both of whom were pres- ent, Attorney M. W. Purcell aroused | an enthusiastic response when he de-| clared that the future greatness of Oasper depended largely on good roads, and that immediate attention should be given toward improving the main arteries of commerce, both in and out of Casper. Mr. F. H. Yelton of the Moun- tain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. gave an interesting talk on the efforts being put forth by his con- jcern for the improvement of the ser- vice in Casper. He said the company had installed an exchange in Casper ary strait-from-the-shoulder talks, in {which he advocated a revision in the |membership fee and more active co- operation on the part of the business men, Mr. Holmes pledged four full |paid-up membership cards from his firm for the coming year, and the members afterward evidenced appre-j| ciation of his loyalty to their inter- ests by electing him a member of the board of directors. M. P, Wheeler, a real old-timer, who never fails to let an opportunity | times when Casper was a whistling accomplished thru united effort on the part of business men, made the LOS ANGELES, Feb, 25._E. 0. Orchard, who was shot i Bet anufacturing plant, w haps fatally wounded by his wife, regained consciousness today long eee aaa ete beens: ral | enough to issue a statement to the police absolving his wife from Robert C. Lemm of the Northern blame in connection with the tragedy, and the latter, who fired point- should be produced in great quanti-| ties, this city eould support any kind | pass when he car tell of the good old| post, and point to the great things | Buick Co. of Denver, an active busi- | ness man of that city, wound up the} |speaking program with timely advice| husband, stays at his bedside, pra on the art of co-operative effort. Hie; whose life she attempted. Mrs.| |complimented the city on the paved| Orchard, following Orchard’s confes- streets, the new buildings, and the! sion, has not been placed under ar- general evidence of prosperity and | rest. | enerey: | ‘The’story runs that Mrs. Orchard, More than twenty: nominations) jwho was a former wife of C. F. were made for members of the board|Darcis, returned from the beach in. of directors, the following nine re-|company with Frank Chance, a base- \ceiving the highest number of votes|ball player of considerable repute, to | blank at him after he had threatened the life of her sor by a former ying for the recovery of the man ————— In her explanation of the affair to the police she declared that Orchard had threatened them both on previous occasions, one time breaking two fingers of her hand in a brutal attack. Now she hopes that Orchard will re- cover and pledges fidelity to him if he shows himself to be the man the. thot and will serve for the next twelve! find her husband in an intoxicated| he was when she married im. of the same type and character. being | used by the peace conference, in| France, and, tho completion had :been delayed by war conditions, he believed when installation was completed Cas- per could boast of the best service real hit of the evening by declaring that if the people would get behind the Chamber of Commerce, Casper would become the greatest manufac- turing center between Chicago and the Pacific coast. Mr. Wheeler in the United States. men are a recent innovation in Tekyo, more familiar with the little word Japan. “we,” EOE their interesta to.work Earl D. Holmes of the Holmes oy declared that Casper would be an ideal location for a woolen mill, a months: Earl D. Holmes, R. H, Nich- ols, Alex. White, Lew Gay, Earl C.| Boyle, Wallace Leavitt, Ben Scherck, George B. Nelson and Jack Leary. The board of directors will meet probably Thursday evening to select a president and secretary who will serve for a year. ‘condition bent on avenging his griev- ance by killing his step-son. | Deelaring that he would ‘‘break! A message received today by R. A ee tee Bish body, 5 Crepes Orchard of Casper stated that con- Orchard, erased with fear for her| trary to the Los Angeles dispatch lene life, shot her husband in the Mrs. Orchard was placed under ar- \ head. rest and released on bond. ttt -